Freddie Foxxx - So Tough Lyrics
It's all around us everywhere we look you see it everydaymy brotherman's smile is upside down going the wrong wayI dig deep and try to search for the causeis the answer in the nine milli stuck in my drawersor is it coincidence the projects is full of blacksand when you're black and trying to get ahead they pull you backwe went from African kings to Martin Luther Kingnow they wanna make us all Rodney Kingso they conspire to murder for hireis the world just a big cup of water trying to douse the black fireis it because I'm the man that you brought to this landand rose above being labelled as a field headI made hustle a trade in the ninth gradefigured out a way to get paid before I got laidbut either way I got my hands in a cuffI got my grill guarded and I knuckle up cause it's real toughHow can I find who's the real divinewhen everytime I take a book and take a look my strong mind sees a new signmy black woman degrades meso I grab the clothes, get the gun, kiss the kid and I get swayzeshould I think about the baby at home and go backor should I just say '***** it' and leave it aloneI'm on the road like Billy Jack never looking backwith the fat mack eleven in the backpackwill another man take my place and have my child screaming daddylooking all in his faceor do I turn around and make it upor do I let my pride take control and make it real toughWho do I follow and who do I leaddo they really wanna help me or is it just greedis everybody all for self to get wealththe street wanna dust me off and throw me on the shelvesis he my man or is he trying to play meor is he some hitman, somebody sent to lay mecan I turn a young black boy into a mancan I kick a rhyme and spread knowledge to a fanor do I gotta play the role just to be likelike a whole lotta suckers I know that get the micdo I let a label change me to something I'm notand make records that cold flop whenever they dropwho do I blame if I'm not in succesdo I blame it on my pops that left when I was feeding on my momma's breastor do I blame it on societywith all this black-white stuff, man this shit is real tough
